Famous Writers Quotes About Friendship & Friends
True friends are the rare people who find you in a dark place and take you back to the light, Friendships are one of the most important things in life you are given an opportunity to choose whom you let into your life and whom you allow yourself to love & support
Remember, true friendship is difficult to obtain, it is important that you always remind your friends how important they are to you
We’ve compiled a list of popular author & novelists about friend & friendships. Enjoy.
But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.
–A.A. Milne
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
–Baltasar Gracián
This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.
–Cornelia Funke
Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.
–Criss Jami
Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.
–David Gemmell
Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.
–David Levithan
The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do."
–David Richo
Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.
–David Sedaris
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
–E.M. Forster
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.
–Edith Wharton
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
–Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
–Elizabeth Gaskell
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
–Epicurus
A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.
–Frances O'Roark Dowell
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
–Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship is thinking of the other person first.
–George Alexiou
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
–Georgia O'Keeffe
He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.
–Hanya Yanagihara
Quizás aun no te comprenda. Pero, con un poco de tiempo, llegaré a entenderte. Y no habrá nadie en el mundo que te comprenda mejor que yo.
–Haruki Murakami
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
–Henry David Thoreau
Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain.
–J.K. Rowling
Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.
–Jeanette Winterson
I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.
–Jennifer Elisabeth
I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.
–Jennifer Elisabeth
Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.
–Jennifer Elisabeth
Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.
–Jennifer Elisabeth
I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.
–Jennifer Elisabeth
A friend is someone who knows where all your bodies are buried. Because they're the ones who helped you put them there. And sometimes, if you're really lucky, they help you dig them back up.
–Jenny Lawson
Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?
–Jenny Han
Friends are the family you choose.
–Jess C. Scott
The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time.
–Jessica Park
I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.
–Jody Gehrman
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.
–John Boyle O'Reilly
...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.
–John Boyne
I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
–John Green
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
–John Joseph Powell
Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.
–John O'Donohue
What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.
–Joseph Roux
No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.
–Kahlil Gibran
That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.
–Kathryn Stockett
Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.
–Kelley Armstrong
To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.
–Kristin Hannah
Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.
–Lemony Snicket
We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third.
–Leslie Knope
It was just that there was something newly powerful about this assembled family in the car. They were all growing up and into each other like trees striving together for the sun.
–Maggie Stiefvater
Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.
–Mandy Hale
Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn’t last, it prepares you for the one that will.
–Mandy Hale
We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance...all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able.
–Marissa Meyer
I knew they would kill me when they found out, but… He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.
–Marissa Meyer
If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.
–Mark Glamack
People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.
–Michael Bassey Johnson
True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.
–Michael Bassey Johnson
True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.
–Michael Bassey Johnson
Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.
–Mike Norton
my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
–Nick Hornby
Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments--because they're willing to brave the shadows with you--and in your greatest moments--because they're not afraid to let you shine.
–Nicole Yatsonsky
the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.
–Nikki Giovanni
I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.
–Nina LaCour
You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.
–Nina LaCour
I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
–Oliver Goldsmith
For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.
–Osamu Dazai
There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.
–Patrick Rothfuss
I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone.
–Rachel Machacek
You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away.Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.
–Rainbow Rowell
Everything about her has to do with me.
–Richelle Mead
She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.
–Rick Riordan
...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.
–Robert Galbraith
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
–Robert Louis Stevenson
I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.
–Robin Jones Gunn
Nobody steals books but your friends.
–Roger Zelazny
If you claim to be a real friend then be real in your soul. If you claim to be fake then be an enemy instead.
–Santosh Kalwar
Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity.
–Santosh Kalwar
,the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do.
–Sara Shepard
Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.
–Sarah Addison Allen
The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
–Sarah Orne Jewett
A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.
–Scott Dikkers
True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.
–Seth Brown
Soul connections are not often found and are worth every bit of fight left in you to keep.
–Shannon L. Alder
The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.
–Shannon L. Alder
When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?
–Shannon L. Alder
When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.
–Shannon L. Alder
The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.
–Shannon L. Alder
Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
–Shannon L. Alder
A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.
–Shannon L. Alder
To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.
–Sidney Sheldon
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion
–Simone de Beauvoir
I give her the only honest and true answer I have."You're where I want to be."
–Simone Elkeles
If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?
–Sophie Kinsella
Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.
–Sophie Kinsella
It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.
–Stephen Chbosky
If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.
–Steve Maraboli
How would your life be different if…You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day…You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.
–Steve Maraboli
I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.
–Tanith Lee
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
–Tehyi Hsieh
Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.
–Tennessee Williams
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.
–Toni Morrison
You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.
–Truman Capote
...Who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make love known?
–William Shakespeare
I've decided that I'm not going to try to squeeze myself into a friendship that hurts me anymore. I'm going to let her go and just be friends with people who make me feel good about myself.
–Zoe Sugg
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